[Angstrom-distro-users] Akita linksys WCF12 issue

[Stanislav Brabec]

Matthias Hentges wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 14.12.2007, 00:43 +0100 schrieb Justin Albstmeijer:
> > Joshua,
> > 
> > Just to rule something out..
> > Are you running an Angstrom version with kernel 2.6.23?
> > This because my laptop and akita share the problem running kernel 2.6.23..
> > 
> > Justin
> 
> the logs you posted show avahi messing with your network.
> You might wanna remove the avahi stuff and see if DHCP picks up an IP.

I experienced probably the same or very similar problem, when I used the
default /etc/wpa.conf with my keys added to the end of this (unchanged)
file - AP is associated, WPA is established, but no DHCP address exists.
I suspect that DHCP is called too early, and in most cases when WPA is
not yet established when DHCP daemon gives it up. Running
dhcpcd -i wlan0 manually works around this problem.

Problem needs deeper research to find the reason of this behavior.

Zeroconf should be completely independent on DHCP and uses different IP
range. But Zeroconf needs support from the AP and maybe some fixes to be
able to use it for WLAN instead of DHCP.

When I used my own additional association/WPA script, DHCP works:
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus/fixes -> miscellaneous files / wlan_roaming

Using "wpa" keys and password in the /etc/network/interfaces might help
as well.


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Stanislav Brabec
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus